{"id":46787,"date":"2023-10-26T14:23:48","date_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:23:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelandmark.com\/?p=46787"},"modified":"2023-10-26T14:23:48","modified_gmt":"2023-10-26T14:23:48","slug":"holden-receives-grant-for-spring-ledge-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/2023\/10\/26\/holden-receives-grant-for-spring-ledge-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Holden receives grant for Spring Ledge Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"byline\"><em>Kristen Payson<\/em><\/div>\n<p>BOSTON \u2014 The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced Oct. 18 more than $6.6 million in grant funding to make parkland and trail improvements and preserve and protect land in Massachusetts. The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is awarding Land and Water Conservation Fund grants to 10 cities and towns, including Holden, in partnership with the National Park Service. The LWCF grants are funded through the sales of federal offshore oil and gas leases, the proceeds of which are then used to support public outdoor recreation areas and facilities.<\/p>\n<p>In Holden, $620,000 in grant money will go to the Spring Ledge Farm project. The project will acquire a 112-acre area, next to 100 conserved acres to the east (White Oak Land Conservation Society\u2019s \u201cPuffer\/ Heiniger property\u201d) and a 1,000-acre Four Town Greenway to the south.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe ability to work, play, and enjoy our outdoor spaces is a matter of environmental justice,\u201d said EEA Secretary Rebecca Tepper. \u201cFrom a new splash pad to cool off in the summer to an accessible town green for all people to gather, these grants will go a long way to bringing communities together outdoors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The LWCF Grant Program was established by Congress in 1964 to fulfill a bipartisan commitment to safeguard the country\u2019s natural areas, water resources, and cultural heritage and provide everyone with recreational opportunities. The fund provides up to 50 percent of the total project cost for acquiring land or developing and renovating parkland. Since the program\u2019s inception, more than $130 million has been directed to the Commonwealth\u2019s parks and open spaces.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kristen Payson BOSTON \u2014 The Healey-Driscoll Administration announced Oct. 18 more than $6.6 million in grant funding to make parkland and trail improvements and preserve and protect land in Massachusetts. The Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs is awarding Land and Water Conservation Fund grants to 10 cities and towns, including Holden, in partnership [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":96545,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","_sitemap_exclude":false,"_sitemap_priority":"","_sitemap_frequency":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46787"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46787\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devcherryroad.com\/news2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}